[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 768 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 768

To restrict the Food and Drug Administration from penalizing retailers 
 for face-to-face tobacco sales that are in accordance with State law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 1997

Mr. LaHood (for himself, Mr. Ehrlich, and Mr. Martinez) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To restrict the Food and Drug Administration from penalizing retailers 
 for face-to-face tobacco sales that are in accordance with State law.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. IDENTIFICATION AND TOBACCO SALES.

    If a State has in effect a law which prohibits the sale of 
cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products to individuals under age 18 
or 19, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may not, through the 
Food and Drug Administration, take enforcement action against a 
retailer of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products for the sale in 
such State of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco products if such a sale 
is a face-to-face transaction and is conducted in accordance with such 
State law to an individual who is of legal age.
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